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Welter, Cole H., Ed. – Alaska Journal of Art, 1989
The inaugural issue of this annual journal explores issues affecting art education practices in Alaska and seeks to contribute to a national dialogue on art education policy. "Art as General Education" (Harry S. Broudy) addresses the essential value and nature of the arts in general education. It argues for visual arts education as a key…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Art Education, Art History, Art Teachers
Teaching in Rural Alaska: Journal of Applied Ambiguity, 1986
As a component of the University of Alaska's Cross-Cultural Orientation Program (X-COP), this journal provides a forum for rural Alaska teachers to share experiences and ideas. Articles in this issue discuss: (1) a highly rated school in Manokotak--a Yup'ik Eskimo community that is intergrating schooling into its contemporary Yup'ik culture; (2)…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education
Dayo, Dixie, Ed. – Sharing Our Pathways, 2000
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI) promotes systemic educational reform based in the culture and philosophy of the Alaska Native world view. AKRSI's first 5-year funding cycle ended in August 2000, and AKRSI was funded for a second 5 years beginning in November 2000. AKRSI activities are…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cultural Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Grubis, Steve, Ed.; Rowe, Kaye, Ed. – Teaching in Rural Alaska: Journal of Applied Ambiguity, 1984
As a component of the University of Alaska's Cross-Cultural Orientation Program (X-COP), this journal provides a forum for rural Alaska teachers to share ideas and insights. Articles in this issue discuss: (1) the inadequacies of educational research for defining the essence of effective teaching; (2) making the classroom culturally compatible…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Classroom Techniques, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education
Northwest Education, 2001
This journal examines promising approaches to supporting beginning teachers. It contains the following articles: "Facing the Future" (Suzie Boss), which discusses meeting the need for qualified teachers by using fresh ideas such as better support for novices and more training for mentors; "Building a Teacher's 'Repertoire' Takes…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Culturally Relevant Education
Leask, Linda; And Others – Alaska Review of Social and Economic Conditions, 1987
Providing a basis to help Alaskans determine future spending levels and priorities, this report traces how the state spent more than $26 billion in general funds from fiscal years 1981 through 1986 before oil prices crashed and brought state revenues tumbling down with them. Figures indicate that cumulative general fund expenditures over the…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Sharing Our Pathways: A Newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, 1999
In 1995 the National Science Foundation funded the Alaska Rural System Initiative (RSI), a joint effort of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Among its goals, the RSI aims to increase the presence of Alaska Native knowledge and perspectives in all areas of science and education in rural Alaska, develop…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
1992
The Chugach Conferences on the future of communication in Alaska are working conferences in which participants play as important a role as the speakers. The 1991 conference alternated public sessions with small-group discussion of communications issues such as rural circumstances, telephone policy, evolving communication technologies, distance…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Broadcast Industry
Dayo, Dixie Masak, Ed. – Sharing Our Pathways, 2001
This document contains the five issues of "Sharing Our Pathways" published in 2001. This newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI) documents efforts to make Alaska rural education--particularly science education--more culturally relevant to Alaska Native students. Articles include "Research and Indigenous…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages